{"id":289934,"date":"2025-03-17T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289934"},"modified":"2025-03-15T02:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T02:16:47","slug":"our-enemies-commit-genocide-not-our-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/our-enemies-commit-genocide-not-our-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Enemies Commit Genocide, Not Our Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

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11 Mar 2025 – Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on why Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including its self-defense rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court; the double standards applied to Israel’s horrific crimes in Gaza.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As both an academic and legal practitioner, there are a few individuals who have studied genocide the way William Schabas has for over 35 years.<\/p>\n

At the start of his career, he was among the first Western voices to warn of an impending genocide in Rwanda back in 1993. Today, he is professor of international law at Middlesex University and professor of international human rights at Leiden University.<\/p>\n

Canada-born Schabas, who lost relatives in the Holocaust, also sits on the advisory board of the Israel Law Review and the Journal of International Criminal Justice, and has published dozens of books, including Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes<\/a><\/em> (Cambridge University Press).<\/p>\n

As a legal practitioner, Schabas was one of the commissioners on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which reported to the UN in 2004, as well as a commissioner on the Iran Tribunal Truth Commission in 2012. Two years later, he was appointed the head of a UN Committee investigating the role of Israel in the 2014 Gaza war<\/a>, and was then subsequently involved in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) case between Croatia and Serbia, regarding claims of genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Schabas represented the state of Myanmar at the ICJ, arguing that the crimes against the Rohingya did not meet the threshold of genocide, prompting criticism from friends and foes. Of these criticisms, Schabas told Reuters<\/a><\/em>: “I am hired as a lawyer, they’re my client\u2026 Both sides have a right to have competent representation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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11 Mar 2025 – Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on why Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including its self-defense rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court; the double standards applied to Israel’s horrific crimes in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":289937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1854,87,865,1643,3214,1644,2395,629,88,651,427,965,172],"class_list":["post-289934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-genocide-studies","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-international-criminal-court-icc","tag-international-law","tag-israel","tag-justice","tag-palestine","tag-war-crimes","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289938,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289934\/revisions\/289938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}